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AWS – Amazon Pinpoint introduces country rules to precisely control SMS message delivery
Amazon Pinpoint now offers country rules, a new feature that allows developers to control the specific countries they send SMS and voice messages to. This enhancement helps organizations align their message sending activities to the precise list of countries where they operate. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Personalize now makes it easier than ever to delete users from datasets
Amazon Personalize now makes it easier than ever to remove users from your datasets with a new deletion API. Amazon Personalize uses datasets provided by customers to train custom personalization models on their behalf. This new capability allows you to delete records about users from your datasets including user metadata and user interactions. This helps […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for SQL Server Supports SSAS Multidimensional for SQL Server 2019
Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) in Multidimensional mode for SQL Server 2019. There is no additional cost to install SSAS directly on your Amazon RDS for SQL Server DB instance. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Transfer Family is now available in the AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region
Customers in AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region can now use AWS Transfer Family. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall now available in the Canada West (Calgary) Region
Starting today, you can use Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall in the Canada West (Calgary) Region. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon DynamoDB introduces configurable maximum throughput for On-demand tables
Amazon DynamoDB on-demand is a serverless, pay-per-request billing option that can serve thousands of requests per second without capacity planning. Previously, the on-demand request rate was only limited by the default throughput quota (40K read request units and 40K write request units), which uniformly applied to all tables within the account, and could not be […]
AWS – AWS Control Tower is now available in AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region
Starting today, customers can use AWS Control Tower in the AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region. With this launch, AWS Control Tower is available in 29 AWS Regions and the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. AWS Control Tower offers the easiest way to set up and govern a secure, multi-account AWS environment. It simplifies AWS experiences by […]
AWS – IP prefix visibility on Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor console
Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor, an internet traffic monitoring service for AWS applications that gives you a global view of traffic patterns and health events, now displays IPv4 prefixes in its console dashboard. Using this data in Internet Monitor, you can get more details about your application traffic and health events. For example, you can do […]
GCP – Simplifying data modeling and schema generation in BigQuery using multi-modal LLMs
The intricate hierarchical data structures in data warehouses and lakes sourced from diverse origins can make data modeling a protracted and error-prone process. To quickly adapt and create data models that meet evolving business requirements without having to rework them excessively, you need data models that are flexible, modular and adaptable enough to accommodate many […]
GCP – Uncomplicating the complex: How Spanner simplifies microservices-based architectures
In the realm of modern application design, developers have a range of choices available to them for crafting architectures that are not only simple, but also scalable, performant and resilient. Container platforms like Kubernetes (k8s) offer users the ability to seamlessly adjust node and pod specifications, so that services can scale. This scalability does not […]